Category: On the Street

Turbosmart has just introduced a new wastegate to its product line that boasts an even more lightweight and compact design. The new Ultra-Gate38 is a 38mm wastegate that has been redesigned from the ground up to feature a new optimal flow path through the body and also boasts excellent heat handling characteristics.

The wastgate is supplied with 2 gaskets, 2 NPT fittings, valve seat and a 7psi spring with all necessary mounting bolts.

RRP for the Ultra-Gate38 is $499.00 and is available from all Autobarn, Repco and other good automotive retailers and workshops.

Category: On the Street

Speed limits and road safety have been hotly debated for many decades as being directly related to the road toll, despite many lobby groups protesting otherwise. On one hand you have the law makers drilling it into the motorists head that speed kills, and on the other hand the motorist believes the answer is through driver training. With mega bucks at stake here, it’s clear to see who the winner’s going to be but how much of the ‘Speed kills’ do the law makers actually believe in themselves?

It seems in the UK not much, with British top dog Police Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes loosing his licence for 42 days for exceeding the speed limit by 50km/h.

A UK lobby group called Safe Speed asked Mr Hughes, “Were you driving safely Mr Hughes? If you were, then you have been lying to us about the importance of sticking to the speed limit, we don’t believe for a single second that Mr Hughes was driving dangerously and he must now tell us the truth about the role of speed limits in road safety.”

Category: On the Street

The national car insurer, AAMI released some research findings they carried out in relations to Australians and their drink driving history. While some would say the reports findings were shocking, I found them to be pretty much on the money. With a continual steady amount of drivers being pinged for drink driving, the AAMI report would have to show a reasonable percentage of drivers admitting to drink driving for the report to seem even half convincing.

Well, according to the AAMI research, 37 percent of Aussie drivers have admitted to driving whilst over the national legal limit of .05 and 15 percent have also admitted to taking a different route to avoid being breath tested.

With so much on stake for being detected drink driving, it still amazed to learn that the trend does not appear to end anytime soon despite increased numbers of RBT’s and fines and penalties.

Category: On the Street

For Les Adams to cancel one of his events, you know it must be a pretty serious matter and it seems the local Wodonga council have intervened and forced the Autofest event to withdrawal its presence.

The Wodonga Autofest event was scheduled for the 23rd and 2224th of February, but has been cancelled indefinitely until a resolution can be made and a suitable local venue sourced. The entrant numbers were around the 174 mark at the time of the cancellation, meaning the event was tipped to have been a success if ran.

A full press release from Les Adams has been included below:

Wodonga
Autofest
Cancelled!

Regretfully we are informing you of the cancellation of the planned Wodonga Autofest that was to be held on February 23rd and 24th 2007.

After the Albury Event we were offered by the Wodonga City Council Three sites in which to grow our Event within the Wodonga region.
One was the Gateway Site between Albury / Wodonga Borders and the two others being the Tafe site and the Wodonga Racing Club site and after much deliberation the latter was chosen.
A press release written and sent out by the Wodonga City Council dated August 31st 2007 see attached, was sent to all media out lining this and noting that the Burnouts are a Major part of our planned Events.

Council in late November then decided that they were unaware of Burnouts taking place and all of a sudden decided that the road surface that they first offered was NOW not suitable for driving events such as Go To Whoa and Burnouts but agreed we should still run the Wodonga Autofest without these events.
As you would be aware, we are a driving event show so this left us NO alterative other than to make our decision not to go forth with the Wodonga Autofest.
It’s a real disappointment as competitor numbers were at 174 when we decided not to proceed and we Thank all those who entered, offered sponsorship and shown us support for this event but we could not continue as we felt you would be let down.

A FULL Refund for all MONIES Received will be returned by mail.

We hope other events have better LUCK in this Region

Regards Les Adams